Alan Turner
02-23-2005, 7:51 AM
As many of you may recall from prior posts, my strong preference is for old rather than new handtools. Well, I need to outfit a second shop, and so decided to be a bit lazy and see if I could get away with it, so I went to the place we can't mention here, and bought a set of NOS Bahco chisels. They are tang chisels, wood handles, 10.5" long, bevel edged, metric sized. What I could call bevel edge bench chisels. I paid about $58, including shipping. I note that at the current time the price is up a bit.
Well, they arrived, and this morning, I spent 2 hours lapping and honing them. There were not in bad shape, so it works out to 20 min. each, which is much faster for me than older tools. Just cut a mortise in hard maple, 1/2:", and the edge help up well, with no rolling. Seems to be pretty good steel.
I thought I would pass this buy info along for those in the market for an inexpensive chisel set. No affiliation, etc. Pix is from the bay.
One reason that I made this decision is that I have a full set of butt Bahco's, from the early 80's, and they are of excellent steel.
Well, they arrived, and this morning, I spent 2 hours lapping and honing them. There were not in bad shape, so it works out to 20 min. each, which is much faster for me than older tools. Just cut a mortise in hard maple, 1/2:", and the edge help up well, with no rolling. Seems to be pretty good steel.
I thought I would pass this buy info along for those in the market for an inexpensive chisel set. No affiliation, etc. Pix is from the bay.
One reason that I made this decision is that I have a full set of butt Bahco's, from the early 80's, and they are of excellent steel.